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make me stop, I’d have been pissed. I paused, unsure whether I needed to explain to Jean-Claude and Richard where we were going. Asher and Micah waited just ahead of me; Mephistopheles waited with his hand in mine. Nathaniel was just behind me. I had one of those Miss-Manners-doesn’t-cover-it moments. Do you need to tell Boyfriend A and Boyfriend B that you’re leaving not because you don’t want to see them have sex with another woman, but because you’d rather not get all naked and fuck in front of anyone who might happen to walk through the door?

I’d never watched any of my men with another woman. I’d never really seen them this completely comfortable with anyone but me. I think Jean-Claude would have been more comfy with the other men, but he was always very careful with their comfort level; for the first time with Richard they were doing something that they could both just enjoy. No being careful was needed, and it showed. With the heels Envy was as tall as Jean-Claude, so he’d bent her body backward just a little; his hand cupped her chin, fingers tracing the long curve of her neck, her hair pushed to one side by his arm coming around her neck. His other arm was around her waist helping bow her body just that slight curve backward, tilting her lower body forward so that the long naked line of her was held out for Richard. He knelt at her feet, the summer brown of him looking even darker against all that pale skin. His mouth was pressed between her legs, his hair forward so I couldn’t see exactly what he was doing, but I knew. One hand was between her thighs, and the other was curved around the outside of the other leg. Between the two of them they had her legs spread wide, so that she was unsteady on the tall silver stilettos. I realized that Jean-Claude was holding most of her weight, because between the two of them they had her completely off balance, but she wasn’t complaining. Her eyes were closed, mouth half-parted, her breathing fast and faster, making her breasts rise and fall frantically.

She was a better height for them both. I’d have been too short to be stretched between them on my feet. There was something graceful in the curves of her body between them. She screamed, her body bucking. Richard pressed himself tighter against her, and Jean-Claude’s mouth closed over the strained curve of her neck. Her body spasmed between them, and Jean-Claude rolled just his eyes up to look at me over the line of her neck. I looked into those dark blue eyes. His eyes bled to midnight fire as I watched. I gave a small wave and led the rest toward the bedroom. It looked like a lot of fun, but I wanted more privacy.

Nicky followed us, but Dino stayed. It was Wicked who fell in beside Nicky to guard us. I thought they meant to take up posts by the door like they did when I was with Jean-Claude and the rest, but they followed us into the bedroom. I turned and said, “If I’d wanted an audience I’d have stayed outside.”

“He looks tame, but he’s an unknown weretiger who’s been trained in combat by some very good warriors. We can’t let you be with him the first time with no one in here to guard you.”

“What, I’m like royalty, I have to have witnesses to the bedding process?”

“They didn’t insist on witnesses just because of some old-fashioned idea that if it wasn’t witnessed it wasn’t real, Anita. Sometimes they put witnesses in the room so that one half of the new royal couple couldn’t accidentally injure or kill the other,” Wicked said.

I looked at him, and my face must have asked for me.

“Not everyone was happy with their arranged marriages,” he said.

I thought about that for a moment, then shook my head. “I don’t know what to say to that.”

“Don’t say anything; just know that Nicky and I will be by the door keeping everyone safe. We’ll just be on this side of the door.”

“Yeah, we would suck as bodyguards if we let you get hurt because we were too pussy to watch,” Nicky said.

I frowned at him.

He grinned. “But if you want me to do more than guard, you know all you have to do is ask. I’ll be happy to lend an extra hand or mouth.”

I frowned harder at